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A.C. Perch Advent 2021 Day 10

This one has a sort of melon scent and a lovely light flavour of papaya and mulberry – truly! The tea base is also lovely against the fruit pieces and it’s nice to have a white tea with some flavour (but not an overwhelming or fake flavour). The ingredients also include apple and jasmine, but I wouldn’t say I get either of those very clearly.

I imagine this would be delightful chilled.

Lexa loved this one! She drank down her whole cup before I went for a second sip!

A.C. Perch Advent 2021 Day 9

A 5-minute steep on green tea?! My word, these steeps times shock me every day haha. I did enjoy the wee excerpt on the background of this tea being imported to Europe in the wee booklet that comes with the calendar.

However, I’m happy to say there’s no bitterness here and this seems like a fairly standard green tea? It’s not overly vegetal, or seaweed-y, like some of the Japanese green teas I’ve tried. If anything there is a hint of perhaps butter — very subtle. The cup is overall quite smooth (this is turning out to be the word for the entire A.C. Perch calendar).

I’m wouldn’t say I’m a green tea fan, nor do I have much in the way of knowledge, but I’m enjoying this cup, yay (maybe I can explore some Chinese green teas in the future).

A.C. Perch Advent 2021 Day 7

I made a mess of this one sadly. I had yet another hectic work day (cleaning up the mess of others) and steeped this one up, only to have to run out the door. When I finally arrived home hours later, it was ice cold. I drank it anyway and noticed a hint of bitterness with some sweetness overlaying it. Nothing too special, but most certainly my own fault.

Today I threw the rest of the leaves in my cup to steep a fresh cup, but I think I overleaped because it was quite bitter — very radicchio! Sigh, definitely chalk this up to user error on my part!

A.C. Perch Advent 2021 Day 8

This one smells very fruity, I’d say a mix of mostly strawberry with papaya and a hint of creaminess.

The steeped scent is nearly exactly the same. The taste is much more subtle, which is lovely. I enjoy that many of the European companies aren’t over the top — I enjoy a more delicately flavoured tea. Yet again, this is so smooth (even with a 5-minute steep), the base tase has no astringency and the flavouring adds hints of creaminess and fresh strawberries and perhaps raspberry— almost like my Nann’s homemade strawberry shortcake. There is also meant to have papaya and kiwi, but I don’t get much flavour coming through for either of those.

2021 sipdown no. 115

Sad sipdown of this one from the A.C. Perch advent! I must order this because I really adore it.

Started my day with this delightful cuppa in my adorable new mug from Etsy with hand-drawn seabirds as I tucked in to read my book on octopuses. I’’m not sure if you can tell I study biology XD.

A.C. Perch Advent 2021 Day 6

The dry scent is a nice mix of grapefruit and bergamot, but not too strong.

With a 5-minute steep time, I feared this would be drying in the mouth, but there’s absolutely no astringency whatsoever. I don’t know how they make these teas so smooth! The steeped tea tastes exactly like the scent and is delightful!

I would definitely order this one for my cupboard!

A.C. Perch 2022 Advent Day 1: White Christmas Tea

I wasn’t overly excited when I saw this one, but we were both pleasantly surprised. The scent is quite strongly cinnamon, but the blending of this tea was really well done with the spices not overtaking the base at all.

A.C. Perch Advent 2021 Day 5

Ooh, this one came in a much bigger tin with a ribbon attached to reuse the tin as a wee ornament!

The scent is strongly cinnamon candy hearts, which makes me think of the cinnamon tea from H&S with a similar scents that tastes like liquified cinnamon hearts (yum).

The steeped tea smells very similar but mellowed out, with the cinnamon falling more to the background. The flavours are much more subtle and smooth, also I like that there’s coconut included in this blend – how unique. All of these teas are so smooth!

I bought this one about a year ago to help reinduct me into the world of tea and it was exactly what I needed. The intense fruity flavors provide a delicious foundation upon which delicate notes of white and green teas are set, rather than the other way around. Any bitterness that the green tea may lend the brew serves well to contrast, and therefore emphasize, the peachy taste.
When cooled for an iced tea, the white and green tea flavors come forward.
An excellent tea for beginners, or the well-acquainted tea drinker who likes a strong fruit flavor.

A.C. Perch Advent 2021 Day 4

I was a bit unsure of this tea because I’m not usually huge on ginger heavy teas unless I’m not feeling well. And then chili as well! I thought the spicy heat would be over the top.

How wrong I was! This company keeps impressing me. The tea was far more lemongrass forward, but all the flavours were very subtle and very smooth. It was a lovely cuppa and I downed it far too quickly!

A.C. Perch Advent 2021 Day 3

Lex, her mom, and her nonna are all doing this calendar as well (the B&B caffeine free advent we’ll be enjoying together next month as well haha). However, they are all pretty caffeine sensitive, so when I opened this tea I was a bit concerned! Well, I didn’t need to be, because my phone was blowing up this morning with texts about how much they loved it — “I could sit and drink this all day! What a wonderful journey!”

The scent is intoxicating — bold, yet clean and clear (though I do love a bold black tea that I would take as a breakfast tea). The CTC cut is so small! It almost looks like coffee! This tea is bold, but with only the subtlest hints of tannic-ity at the end. It’s not too malty, but ever so slightly so. I can’t get over the lack of astringency/tannic notes here since sometimes that can be the downfall for these bold black teas.

Lex, her mom, and her Nonna all added milk (oat for some and soy for others), but I enjoyed this straight. I tried a sip of Lex’s with soy milk and it was also divine.

A.C. Perch Advent 2021 Day 2

Disclaimer: I don’t think anyone else is doing A.C. Perch, but let me know if that’s not the case and I’ll try to hold off posting until a bit later in the day.

I don’t know if I ever had a jasmine tea. I certainly don’t seek them out, but I don’t really have a reason why.

This tea smells of jasmine and mint and I don’t really mind the scent. The jasmine seems to be a mix of sweet and musty (though the sweetness could be the mint).

The taste is very mellow. Subtle hints of mint and jasmine intertwined equally, not neither too strong. I understeeped this by one minute because 5 minutes seemed extreme for a green tea base (granted so did 4 minutes). There is a slight peppermint coolness in the aftertaste, but it’s still mellow. I’m quite happy with this one!

A.C. Perch Advent 2021 Day 1

ADVENT SEASON IS UPON US!

We’re so excited to dive into A.C. Perch!

The first tea has a wonderful background and on top of that it smells amazing steeped! A mix of floral with sweetness and makes me think of a delicious high mountain black/oolong mix.

There was a delightful sweetness to this tea paired with a pretty oolong flavour (I’m not sure exactly how to describe that — it wasn’t mineral/cardboard, but something else). I sadly was running around like a mad person attempting to get to work early and only had a few sips.

By the time I got home, the tea had been left out but was ice cold like it had been put in the fridge haha. The sweetness was still present, but with a slight edge of bitterness.

I made a resteep and it’s decent, but I don’t know that it’s really one I’d bother resteeping.

I’m happy with this start to the advent and anything that comes across as not completely positive was all on me and my ridiculous current work schedule.

Our A.C. Perch’s advents have arrived and with it, two samples of this tea!

The steeped scent is enough to notice, but not overly intense or cloying. Excellent start! The scent is reminiscent of warmed pineapple, making me dream of summer by the ocean (which I’m already missing).

The green rooibos base is lovely and the flavour has hints of pineapple, passionfruit, and even some sea buckthorn that come through subtly.

This tea is PERFECTION. I went to Copenhagen on a layover. AC Perch’s was a MUST STOP for me. It’s the world’s most perfect tea shop. Very busy with the kindest workers. I asked for their best seller, and they gave me 100G of this. I am almost done, after 2 weeks, and already put some in the cart online. It’s so fresh, fruity, layered. This tea iced is like a punch. Blissful. And the dry leaf smell is one of the best I have ever smelt. Friend, please get some plane tickets, get to Copenhagen, and GO HERE, and buy this tea. Yes, you can buy it online. But the shop is so delightful, along with the rest of the Danish city.

This might become by everyday drinking tea. It soothes me for some reason.

This one is so good! The oolong base is not too oolong-y, neither super green and floral nor especially dark and roasty, and the raspberry is just right, almost like my dear lamented Haru Poro Poro from Lupicia. It is a little syrupy (though never artificial), but that’s no bad thing in my book—a good raspberry syrup is one of life’s great joys, IMO. I’ve prepared this a bunch of different ways, both hot and cold, but I think it’s at its very best cold-steeped and iced. I only wish this one was easier to get ahold of here in the States, since I don’t think I’ll make it back to Denmark any time in the foreseeable future.

Thanks for this one, Greenteafairy! This is NOT just raspberries in this blend! Within the steeped leaves, I’m seeing all sorts of fruits: something that looks like a tiny cranberry, strawberries, either a blueberry or black currant… basically a lot of things but not raspberry. I love a fruity oolong anyway. The oolong leaf itself looks more like pouchong than a rolled up leaf oolong. It’s tough to tell what type it is exactly, especially mixed with all that fruit.
Steep #1 // 1 1/2 tsp // few minutes after boiling // 2 minute steep
Steep #2 // few min a.b. // 2-3 min

Thanks for this sample, Greenteafairy! A leafy Pai Mu Tan type with a candy peach flavor. I wish I had saved this one for summer! There seemed to be other ingredients than the peach (like a cardamom pod? Hmm.) and there also seemed to be other fruit flavors that should have made an appearance, but I didn’t find those. An okay blend!
Steep #1 // 2 tsps // 20 min after boiling // 1 minute steep
Steep #2 // few minutes after boiling // 2-3 min steep

This is a pretty good blend, if not quite what I expected. The flavor is mostly rooibos, but it’s the good kind rather than the medicinal tobacco woodchip variety. There is some fruitiness to it, though nothing really identifiable as rhubarb. It’s a nice caffeine-free option, if not quite the revelation I’d hoped for, rhubarb-lover that I am. Very pleasant iced.

This was the tea for the 18th. We’ve got a bit of a backlog, but this is the sort of thing that will happen when you keep finding things that make you think, “meh.”

I don’t know anything about this one. It’s a white tea. I don’t think it should be flavoured, because it usually says aromatised on the packing if it is and it didn’t here. Was it grown in Iran, then? If so, we’ve got a lot of points on the Scale of Interestingness. Somehow, though, that strikes me as a little unlikely. That sort of thing doesn’t seem to be ACP’s style, although you never know.

When drinking it, I am further confused about whether or not it’s flavoured, because it tastes extraordinarily like peaches. Like a lot a lot a lot a lot a lot of peaches!

It didn’t actually have any of the things about it that normally puts me off in a white tea. None of that cucumber-y, courgette-y flavour. Not much in the way of floralness and no grass or straw or anything. Just peaches.

It was so strong at one point that I actually visualised biting a peach while tasting it. I could see the yellow flesh of the fruit and feel the downy skin of it. I could see the wrinkly stone and almost feel its roughness against my tongue. It was a really strong sensation of peach there. Far stronger than just your average ‘oh, this tastes like peach.’

So. I don’t much care for white tea in general and this elicited another sigh when opening it but it has turned out to be quite drinkable. THIS is the sort of experience I’d been hoping to get from the Christmas calendar, dammit!

Finally something sensible! December 16th’s tea. I decided to put yesterday’s satchets with the tin of it that I already had.

This! This is far more me than most of the things I’ve had in the calendar so far (apart of course from the wonderful Panyong.), and the stuff I hoped I’d find. Next year I might get the Christmas calendar from Simply Tea which costs the tip of a jet, but is all unflavoured things. We’ll see.

Anyway, I think I’m putting this under the correct heading. The satchets say breakfast tea, and it does indeed taste like Assam and Ceylon, so this is where I’m putting it. Apparently this is the oldest blend in their repertoire.

It’s strong and flavourful and with a great deal of raisin and honey notes to it. I’m enjoying this very much and it’s just the thing to have before making dinner (I’m famished) and after a round of Parcel Bingo with the Danish postal service, in which I came to pick up a parcel and went home with a totally different parcel (also for me, so no catastrophe there) which I didn’t even know had arrived yet. I shall have to go back and have another crack at getting the first parcel tomorrow. Ordering Christmas presents online is easier in the moment of shopping. Not so much when trying to keep track of which parcels have arrived and how many are still outstanding…